The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 120
At these words the genius did all he could to get out, but he could not, because of the enchantment of the lid.
Who acts: genius · What happens: do, get out, enchant · To what, where: all, words, lid
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 genius | det |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 could | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 could | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 could | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enchantment | punct |
| 19 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 enchantment | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 because | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 enchantment | det |
| 22 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lid | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lid | det |
| 25 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enchantment | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the genius | all | this words | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | get out | could | genius | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enchant | the lid | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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